Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] now [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was often away in the West Riding , where he now owned several woollen mills which had been the basis of his father 's fortune . |
| 2 | The leggy actress has revealed that she now shreds all the rubbish at her Malibu home before putting it out for the dust-men . |
| 3 | Put the side levers to O , conveying the message that you now want all the stitches to knit . |
| 4 | The effect on our own accounts is that we now show all the mainstream activities of the Council together , and they are then separated out from the entries for all the other funds , appeals , and trust funds and so on . |
| 5 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 6 | The only difference was that they now spent some of their free time together , thus giving her even more opportunities to fall more and more deeply in love with him . |
| 7 | but when I spoke about safety and getting the money back from the safety training that they now want that they did n't want in the first place you said , no , we should do that |
| 8 | Returning towards the island he saw five Ju88s heading out to sea and although he now had little ammunition left , attacked and thought that he had managed to damage one . |
| 9 | On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong . |
| 10 | You have presented me with the key , and I now perceive all of its hitherto latent beauties . ’ |
| 11 | You see if I now pack those clubs like that you 've got an ace of clubs , yeah , so sometimes when there 's a deal coming off you might draw |
| 12 | ‘ What we have to do , ’ said Samuel , taking advantage of her exit from the ring , ‘ and I take it no one objects if I now chair this committee , ’ he added off-handedly , ‘ is to decide whether the Week of the Lion should continue or be cancelled . ’ |
| 13 | Bett and I also like to ‘ dine ’ out as often as possible and we now know some very good and cheap pub lunches around South Lancs and North Cheshire ( not to mention Greater Manchester and Merseyside ) . |
| 14 | Our social orders have changed and we now dislike such vivid evidence of hierarchy . |
| 15 | ‘ Advertising revenue has held well over the last year and we now see some small signs of an upturn after three years of recession , ’ he explained . |
| 16 | All the optimism of the summer had evaporated , and we now faced another winter and Christmas without our families in this cold hole in the ground . |
| 17 | erm I think perhaps we were on erm traffic management generally , you mentioned Howard Street and Magdalen Street , which you all know you know has always been a bone of contention amongst the Conservatives erm they spent two hundred thousand on it and they now want another two hundred and fifty thousand to make it permanent , and so on and so forth . |
| 18 | Previously he had been engaged in making a geological map of Devon and he now continued this work in an official capacity . |
| 19 | His obsession with wiping surfaces had passed and he now spent much of the time sticking little stones to the wall instead . |
| 20 | His parent did not force him to attend and he now feels this might have brought scorn from other members of the community . |
| 21 | Malekith had been shown the secret trade routes of the Dwarfs during his period as Bel Shanaar 's ambassador , and he now used that knowledge to his own benefit . |
| 22 | It 's hard to figure out what exactly is happening with Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California , since nobody 's returning phone calls : we did manage to find out that its venture capitalist Technology Funding Venture Partners IV in San Mateo , California bought back Hunter 's debt at that auction staged last week ( CI No 2,147 ) — presumably no money really changed hands , and it now owns all of Hunter — but is the company still in business ? |
| 23 | It is very difficult to cover all the possible eventualities in the forty-odd hours of the PPL course , but I now spend more time teaching emergencies connected with power reductions . |
| 24 | That 's fine , but you now know this will happen , and you know how to do it — just by carrying on with this Inch Loss Plan diet and the Maintenance Exercise Programme which will have the effect of continually improving your shape . |
| 25 | There are many more , but you now have enough to make up a very long list of counting numbers using prime numbers and multiplication . |
| 26 | no , but we now know that , if it , if I 've got the right time , half past twelve 's fine |
| 27 | That could well be , but we now have this tremendous er cooperation of so many countries together , we have a very strong team of naval forces in the Gulf now , er I think it 's significant that both these occasions involved three countries working together , er share , without er any violence at any , er injury as far as I 'm aware , er have stopped er these two ships that sought to continue to proceed . |
| 28 | But we now have some understanding of the universality , or otherwise , of symbolic archetypes . |
| 29 | But they now have little chance of making the Anglo-Italian semi-finals . |
| 30 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |